Improvement in wheel-cultivators



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N0.177,853. Patented May 23,1876.

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WMWHEEL CULTIVATOR. No. 177,853L5T'EJQ1Q? Patented May 23, 187KB.

N,PETERS. FHOTO-LITHOGRAPNER WASHINGTON. D C,

omen-1: STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMANUEL M. KISSELL AND MARTIN L. KISSELL, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHEEL-CULTIVATO RS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,853, dated May 23, 1876; application filed January 10, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that We, EMANUEL M. KISSELL and MARTIN L. KIssELL, both residents of the city of Springfield, county of Clarke and State of Ohio, have jointly invented certain Improvements in Wheel-Cultivators, of which the following is a specification:

This invention consists of certain improvements in the wheel-cultivator for which Letters Patent were issued to us September 22, 1874, No. 155,159, and'which will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of our wheel-cultivator, with improvements, when used as a walking-plow; one wheel is removed to better show the parts. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3, Sheet 2, is a side elevation of the seat and its attachments, showing sections of the crossbar and tongue. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the same.

In Figs. 1 and 2, a a are the hooks on which the plow-frames or beams are hung. These are downward elongations of the block-nuts through which the clamp-screws s are inserted. In thisimprovement it forms the connecting'block for the links l 1, above and below the crossbar, the nut for the screw 8, and the bearing-hook or hang-up for the plows. bis the draft-post, which is not es sentiall y diflerent from the same in our former patent, except that it is made longer, extending below the disk-plates of the clevis far enough to receive the ring end of the draftrod 0, which is secured by a key or pin, V, through the end of the post below it. c and c are the two draft-rods. 'c is connected with the collar e, as seen in Fig". l, which has a ring attachment. Both rods are linked into holes in the ends of the cross-bar e, on the lower end of the draft-bar d, which hangs from a ring-bolt in the end of double-tree d. In Fig. 2 the lower cross-bar e is shown in dotted lines. ff are the elevis plates. These are journaled in the bars lb and h, which are held together in. front of f by bolt 9.

It will be seen that the inside bar 71/, after being extended back to the point where the first plow-standard is attached, is bent at an obtuse angle across toward the outside bar h, and united to the latter at its rear end by bolt t, giving to the beam-frame the triangular shape before described. The standards p are angular, having a limb,p", extending forward along the side bars of the beamframe. The limb p is curved in sickle shape, passing partially around the bolt 2" up through a recessformedby the overlapping plate 2', which is bolted to the side bar of the beamframe, with its end overlapping p" to keep the latter in line, and extending above the side bar, so as to allow of one or more holes through its end for a wooden safety-pin, 1, which is preferably located above the beamframe, so that it can be readily seen by the operator, and the team stopped immediately upon its breaking.

In Fig. 1 an intermediate or fifth shovel, j, is shown. Its standard is secured to the short or brace side h of the beam-t'i'ame. This shovel is only used where a more thorough pulverizing of the soil is required than in ordinarycultivation, The block of wood used to stiffen the beam-frame is inserted between bars h and 11/,just behind the clevis, and is secured thereto by through-bolts. (See dotted lines, Fig. 1.)

In Figs. 3 and 4:, Sheet 2, s is a seat bolted upon the ends of the two parallel bars 1). Their forward ends are made adjustable by the notched plates t, which form their terminals, being' bolted to the inner. sides of their front ends. The cross-bar m forms a bearing for the seat-bars b, when in. position as shown, the forward ends catching under the end of the bolt 0, which drops into the notches a in the plates t on each side of the tongue t. The two seat-bars b straddle tongue t, and are held in their parallel position by a through bolt and nut, 3 Pieces of rubber in the form of block-springs can be laid on the cross-bar w for bearings for the bars b, to ease the drivers weight and overcome the rigidity of the seat.

We claim as our inventionl. In combination with draft-post b and rod 0 of a wheel-cultivator, with its key V, the frame-bars h and h, clevis-plates f f, and connecting-bolt g, as shown and specified, for the purposes set forth.

2. Hook-bars a, in combination with draftpost b, links I l, set-screw s, and the cross-bar a: of a Wheel-cultivator as shown, as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The suspended draft-bar 01, provided with a T-head, e, for the purpose of allowing of two separate points of attachment thereto for the draft-rods 0 and c by their front ends, in order to equalize the draft in the manner specified, and for the purposes set forth.

I 4. The draft-bar d, provided with pivoted cross-head e, in combination with the evener d and rods 0 c to form separate means of attaohment to the wheel-spindle and plow-beam, as shown and described.

EMANUEL M. KISSELL. MARTIN L. KISSELL. Attest:

CYRUS B. KIssELL, WM. J. RYAN.' 

